The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02
OVER THE STATE.
Two Mormon elders recently bap.
tised Eve converts in Moore county.


Obion Independent: Uucle Peter
Kink, of the 9th district, ownes a
calf, six months old, that gives milk
regularly aud suckles young calf.
As the mammary glands Of a calf six
m1nths old are almost ia embryo, this
is n remarkable phenomenon, which
we will not undertake to explain.
Lebanon Herald Mr.. David Will
IiaIas, who lived about three miles
north of this city on the Hunters
Point pike, dropped dead Thursday
afternoon. He had eaten a hearty
dinner and walked out into the yard.
when ne fell and Immediately expired.
He was eighty,three years of age.
Brownsville States and Bee: A ter.
rible storm passed over SOmerville
last Saturday. 1t blew off the top Of
the Institute aud otherwise did great
damage. Mr.. Boyd, who lived south
east of the place, was instantly killed
by lightning. He was candidate
for Floater at the election last year.
Mckenzie News: Mrs. Henry Rush.
ing, of this place, happened to a very
peculiar accident Tuesday evening.
She was milking her cow, when the
animal stepped on her foot, and she,
in endeavoring to pull her loot out,
lost her balance, falling with her
whole weight upon the imprisoned
foot, breaking her left ankle in two
places.
Bristol Reporter: At Gave Spring,
few miles from Roanoke, Charles
Shovely, colored, was shot and killed
by Geo. WINNER, also colcred, with
an old cavalry revolver. No cause
assigned fer the deed. WINNER
called his victim to his yard fence uu'
der the pretence of paying him bill,
and killed him in cold blood. Vim.
mer is still at large.
Marshal Gazette: A. L. Fowler,
who resides four miles south of town,
was dangerously injured by falling
down stairs last Sunday night. HI
was sleeping up stairs, and while at
tempting to come down in the dark
missed the steps and fell head fore
most to the floor below. His heaC
was fearfullY injured, aud at last &C
counts it was thought that the chance
were against his recovery.
Martin Mail: As Miss Ruth La
nier was coming to town on horseback
a drunken man riding IN buggy raj
the wheels of his vehicle against he
horse, causing him to become fri hit
ened. The animal plunged an
jumped, throwing Miss Lanier on
pile of lumber. She was rendere
unconscious, but the drunken iudivid
ual drove on without offering assist
ance. When Miss Lanier regaine
consciousness she found that he
herse, having more sympathy tina
the man, had come back and WI
near. She mounted with difficult
and came to town where she now liz
very i'll.
Gallatin Tennesseean: In 1878, q
Squire L. N. Guthrie's place, &c,
N. Guthrie and man named Vant
captured two young buzzards, n
knowing what they were as they wei
white. They took them home al
made pets Of them. They soon d
veloped into full grown buzzards, bI
seemed not anxious to leave HON
They would often go to rOost with Il
chickens One day Guthrie an
Vance caught one of them and put
small bell on it. For several montl
after that the familiar sound of Il
bell was heard about the old HON
but finally when the birds had grow
wild their visits to their home cease
altogether and they were almost 70
gotten by the people on the farm VI
Ill the other day, just fourteen yea
after the buzzards left home, they a